Well that didn't last long.
When I lived in Stockwell, Vaxhall and Clapham that was a bit of a scare on my regular cycle commute.
Actually I still had to go through it when I lived in Bermondsey and Croydon.

Kate Hoey: ‘You will now understand why the local community have been so clear that they did not trust TFL or Lambeth over the Vauxhall bus station plans. The community are usually proved right’

Graeme Craig, TfL’s commercial development director, tells Property Week that his eye is on ‘development opportunities’ that include Vauxhall Bus Station, Kidbrooke Railway Station and Morden town centre.

In TfL’s book, one reason Vauxhall Bus Station has to go or be radically trimmed is to make way for shops. But The Vauxhall Society in the past has drawn attention to loose talk from a TFL employee about plans for a TfL skyscraper HQ on the bus station site.

If true, that would release for development another TfL site or sites in central London, or make TfL a big office landlord. The TfL announcement has prompted one man, Harvey Pettit, to investigate ‘rumours that TfL plans to build an HQ at the [Vauxhall] bridgefoot’.

Mr Pettit says that after looking closely at TfL drawings at a KOVF public meeting in December it became clear to him ‘that the reason for truncating the bus station was to release a tract of land at the bridgefoot’.

Mr Pettit backs up his contention with a TfL drawing of an oval space at the bridgefoot, adding ‘Curiously, the key does not indicate what this oval is meant to be!’.

that is fucking ugly. The bollocks about a community space & employment oppurtunties is galling- who is going to be living in this monstrosity?

The token shite about a mix of affordable/ private housing is typical of developers-as ever, i can see it being watered down to an Elepahnt and castle format where the developers effectively bung some cash to the council offset the reality of having the masses in their lovely development.Class war have previously highlighted zaha hadids shit IIRC

Its an aweful environment around Vauxhall terrible air quality, deafening and dominated by traffic and intimidating to walk and cycle around, something could and should be done to improve the area. But it looks as though they are in the wrong frame of mind to do anything good. Not fussed about the bus station though if something good was built to replace it. but that cluster of high rises is such low quality it would probably make things worse.

The bus station rebuild is all part of the TfL scheme to improve the roads around Vauxhall (tons of info here), removing the gyratory, restoring 2-way traffic and introducing segregated cycle routes. This is independent of the redevlopment of sites SW of the bus station, which are unprecedented in terms of scale and density for this bit of town.

I've never liked that bus station. It is far to hard and harsh, so adds to the general harshness of the junction. It does seem moderately incompetent though to have spent plenty on it and now be talking about demolishing it just a few years later.

I've never liked that bus station. It is far to hard and harsh, so adds to the general harshness of the junction. It does seem moderately incompetent though to have spent plenty on it and now be talking about demolishing it just a few years later.

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I kind of liked its aluminium style - it looked a bit American to me - but those proposed tower blocks are extra fugly.